Larks comments on [moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment - Less Wrong

107 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 03 July 2014 12:04PM

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Comment author: pragmatist 03 July 2014 09:17:26PM 10 points [-]

The more specific it is, the stronger the implication that things left unmentioned are not actually verbotten.

The specific circumstance is explicitly offered as one particular example of a general policy (it's preceded by "e.g."), so I think there's a pretty strong implication that there are other things left unmentioned that are in fact verboten.

Comment author: Larks 07 July 2014 12:07:41AM 2 points [-]

The specific circumstance is explicitly offered as one particular example of a general policy

Unfortunately the origional rule was not really grammatical enough to establish a general policy. If you remove the 'e.g.', as you should from a valid sentance, all we're left with is

If we determine that you're, we reserve the right to delete those comments.

Which doesn't even vaguely hint at a general policy!